Refugee Zana Abdollah’s short film Our Country wins Film Nation:Shorts ‘Film of the Month’ for August 2010

The short film Our Country made by refugee Zana Abdollah with other unaccompanied asylum seeking young people from the Kent Refugee Action Network has won the Film Nation:Shorts Film of the Month award for August 2010. The London 2012 Cultural Olympiad initiative Film Nation:Shorts gives 14-25 years olds film-makers the chance to get their work [...]

Butterflies and bees already buzzing around the Olympic Park

A golden meadow of wild flowers is already blooming around the Olympic Stadium, two years before the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

London 2012 celebrates two years to go to the Paralympic Games

Sunday 29 August 2010 marks exactly two years to go to the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and the London 2012 Organising Committee is calling on the UK public to start planning their Games.

London 2012 to take Young Reporters' baton from Singapore

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) is to invite the outstanding candidates from the International Olympic Committee’s Young Reporters programme to come to London in 2012.

London 2012 begins search for team to design, engineer and manufacture the Olympic and Paralympic Torches

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG), in partnership with the Design Council today, began the process of creating the Olympic and Paralympic Torches for the London 2012 Torch Relays.

London Olympics 2012: two years to go

Today marks two years until the start of London 2012. A breathtaking series of events are planned to mark the milestone, including the launch of a volunteering programme and the opening of the first official shop. Follow the thrills and spills here 3.54pm: Right, that’s it. Most of the activities celebrating the fact the games [...]

Family fun and films at London 2012 Live Sites across the UK for Open Weekend 2010

London 2012 is inviting people across the UK to gather at London 2012 Live Sites this weekend (Friday 23 – Saturday 25 July) for family entertainment to celebrate London 2012 Open Weekend supported by BP – a series of sporting, arts and cultural challenges set up across the UK to lead the nation into the [...]

Road to 2012 exhibition reveals stories of London 2012 Games

Rebecca Adlington, Tom Daley, Nathan Stephens and Zaha Hadid are a few of the people featured in an exhibition of striking new photographic portraits which show an intriguing new side to key figures in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

London 2012 awarded for challenging discrimination

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) have been given an Employers Forum on Age (EFA) award for their work on tackling age discrimination in the work place.

London 2012 signs Technogym as fitness equipment supplier

The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) today confirmed that Technogym has become the latest Tier Three supplier to London 2012. Technogym will supply and install fitness equipment for athletes in the Athletes’ Village and other training venues, becoming Official Fitness Equipment Supplier.